Do you love to grow vegetables and to share your knowledge?

I've never had a vegetable garden before, once settled in Dumaguete it's one of my priorities to set one up right away.

I want to weed and water once maybe twice a day, nothing too fancy for my first try.

I'm wondering about which species are easy to grow here, and about the availability of seeds. I am in Angeles City here and I wonder if I should seed shop before going to Dumaguete.

We are two people, if we could grow enough vegetables for two meals a day (lunchtime salad together), we would be happy.

What kind of space is needed to produce that kind of yield?

Some basic thoughts on fertilizers and pesticides, we prefer to keep everything natural.

Also, what kind of soil should I be looking for as I look for a place to live? Do I need to be so concerned as to test PH of the soil, or can I just eyeball it?

Yes, I will google But I'd love to hear from some Dumaguete locals who are actually doing it with success.

Thanks!

John

 

There is seeds here, especially the ones that can be grown here. I do a lot of gardening, successfully. Give me a shout when you get here. Its much easier in the big bags for plants that are prone to soil born diseases and can regulate the nutrients easier than a whole garden. I also have a 3K square foot green house and a vermi house and composting. Maybe can save you some headaches. I had to adapt when starting this 7 years ago.

 

Robgie, will do. I'd love to see your setup. Growing veggies in bags, what a concept, can make better use of space that way too i imagine. I saw online some gardeners growing vegetables in bales of hay, another space saver. Well, alot to learn, it will be fun. I also learned that Dumaguete City has an agricultural group that promotes urban gardening, they offer info and advice. Thanks for the info and I will give you a shout once situated there.

 

i made a garden in negros but only after i moved from dumaguete to outside bacolod in northern negros...not all the seeds i bought at ace hardware did well but the carrots made OK and the cauliflower was eaten at birth by bugs.....I bought big peppers at robinsons grocery and used them to cook but i saved the seeds and my garden was overflowed months later with so many of the same peppers that grew up so fast and easy...this is a picture of it back in 2011 or was it 2012 View attachment 9829

 

john...

location is going to make a difference as to what you can grow. i don't know of any local private veggie gardens but the commercial growers on our road start planting sweet potatoes, cabbage and pechay at 1000 ft. and go up the hill from there.

you're gonna get the best bang for your buck using local seeds but there's not many choices and i believe most are hybrids but we're testing that now by planting a few saved seeds.

robinsons and citi hardware have small seed racks and fema agrivet, near the public market, has both packets and grower quantities, they will also special order for you.
robinsons has seeds from http://www.knownyou.com/
citi hardware sells seed from http://ramgoseeds.com/

i imported heirloom seeds from the states and some things are doing good and making seed now so i'm happy about that.

i'm relatively new to tropical gardening and i'm excited about successive planting and harvesting. we have a circular garden and started planting mid july of this year. we plant one bed and green manure or rest the other beds and have just gone full circle on a 3 bed circle. there was near zero life in the soils when we started but things are improving. our latest plus is using EM to enhance the soil biology.

we're fortunate to have a local manufacturer of organic fertilizers in the duma area; Greenfarms Systems who makes a vermicompost bio-organic fertilizer, a fish emulsión and EM.


we're not too far from valencia as the crow flies and you're welcome to visit.
Robgie, what's your elevation and what are you growing?


tunji, what elevation where you at in the bacolod area that you could grow carrots and i don't recalling anyone reporting success growing peppers on the philventures@yahoogroups.com group so it's good to hear you did it.

we're at 1200ft and growing cherry tomatoes, cukes, various asian greens, arugula, local and imported lettuces and kales, sweet and chili peppers (not so good), carrots and green onions. the green beans and celery are coming on. we're going to try sweet corn this dry season.
we failed at peas and a few other things but we have lots of learning and work to so to build the soil. we also have malunggay, otoe, gabé and cassava, all of which are sure things.

norm : ))~

 

john...

location is going to make a difference as to what you can grow. i don't know of any local private veggie gardens but the commercial growers on our road start planting sweet potatoes, cabbage and pechay at 1000 ft. and go up the hill from there.

you're gonna get the best bang for your buck using local seeds but there's not many choices and i believe most are hybrids but we're testing that now by planting a few saved seeds.

robinsons and citi hardware have small seed racks and fema agrivet, near the public market, has both packets and grower quantities, they will also special order for you.
robinsons has seeds from http://www.knownyou.com/
citi hardware sells seed from http://ramgoseeds.com/

i imported heirloom seeds from the states and some things are doing good and making seed now so i'm happy about that.

i'm relatively new to tropical gardening and vermicomposting and i'm excited about successive planting and harvesting. we have a circular garden and started planting mid july of this year, we plant one bed and green manure or rest the other beds and have just gone full circle on a 3 bed circle. there appeared to be near zero life in the soils when we started but things are improving. our latest is using EM and manure tea to enhance the soil biology.

we're fortunate to have GreenFarm Systems in the duma area, who makes a vermicompost bio-organic fertilizer, fish emulsión and EM.


we're at 1200ft, and growing cherry tomatoes, cukes, various asian greens, arugula, local and imported lettuces and kales, sweet and chili peppers (not so good), carrots and green onions. the green beans and celery are coming on. we're going to try sweet corn this dry season.
we failed at peas and a few other things but we have lots of learning and work to so to build the soil. we also have local spinach, lemon grass, kankong, malunggay, otoe, gabé and cassava, all of which are sure things.

Robgie, what's your elevation and what are you growing?


tunji, we're looking at the area uphill from la carlota, what elevation where you at in the bacolod area that you could grow carrots and i don't recalling anyone reporting success growing peppers on the philventures@yahoogroups.com group so it's good to hear you did it.


we're not far from valencia as the crow flies and yáll ér welcome to visit.
norm : ))~

 

Robgie, what's your elevation and what are you growing?
Now, just a few , but the list is far to long to type al night for what I have grown. Now is beefsteak, strawberries, bell peppers, jalapeno peppers, hot patio peppers, Sweet potatoes (* ORANGE ) just in case any of you that want a start ( cutting) just ask! its to easy to grow them, slap a couple cuttings in a 3 gallon bag of decent soil and 4 months later their in the bag so to say, hahaha. Let the vine grow up or around the bag, no weeding involved. I had 2 big ones flown in here years ago and have given anyone who wants a start of those, And the asparagus too.
Have not seen any yet I could not grow. Even to prove a point, I grew some brussle sprouts even though I dont like them. A cool weather plant. For the sunnier locations try putting a fish net ( black) over the top of your plants, no weed no till, try using the mulching plastic, put some grass cuttings down, then a few spots of cow manure, then the plastic, cut holes a month later and plant water, the worms will do the rest. It conserves water, the worms keep it tilled and the plastic stops the weeds. Its about 6 peso a meter I think, silver on on side black on the other. To slow the white fly try silver up, seems to slow em down but wont stop them.

 

I had posted pics before on tomatoes and I think also of lettuce, grew 11 varieties of lettuce a couple years back, type in tomatoes or beefsteak tomatoes in the search.

 

Oops, oh well, its pics of a test of growing in the 3 gallon bags, and in the soil using same location for test. Is better in bags in the wet season, dry season, a little better in soil.